Am 10/2/2012 23:56, schrieb Angelo Borsotti: > The problem I am trying to solve is to push to a remote server the > source files only, > while keeping in the local repo both sources and binaries. To do it, I > keep an orphan > branch, [...] > > # this is the commit on the master branch > git init > echo "aaa" >f1 > git add f1 > git commit -m A > > # this is the piece of the script that builds the sources branch > git checkout --orphan sources > # git rm --cached ... remove binaries, if any" > git commit -m A --allow-empty > git rev-list --all --pretty=oneline > > When there are binaries in the commit A, they are removed, and the > tree for the second > git commit is then different, and the commit is actually created. > When there are no binaries (as in the script above, in which the > removal is commented out), > the second git commit would not create any new commit, and I would not > have an orphan > branch. Thence the --allow-empty to force it to create a new commit. > Unfortunately, it creates a new commit only if the system clock > changes the seconds of > the system time between the two git commits. But the existing-and-not-created-commit has exactly the content that you wanted. What's the point in insisting that it is different from any other commit? -- Hannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html